Oct 28, 2026 · @Cris
My little blue lobster is on a wall in Brooklyn. One of my watercolor postcards was selected for Art Mail: The Exhibition, Winsor & Newton's New York show at Drawing Room in Williamsburg, on view through November 4.
Thousands of artists around the world mailed in postcards this year. Only a small number made it onto the walls in New York, and I'm still a little giddy that mine is one of them.
What is Art Mail?
Art Mail is Winsor & Newton's first global watercolor campaign. From April through September 2026, artists everywhere painted postcards and mailed them in to join an online gallery, with the idea that your art should travel.
From all those submissions, two physical exhibitions were curated: one at the Saatchi Gallery in London in early October, and one here in New York. The New York show brings together roughly 250 selected postcards from around the world, curated by Morgan Everhart, ArtRabbit's New York Director.
It lives at Drawing Room, a creative community space in Williamsburg that hosted Art Mail painting nights all summer. It's the perfect home for it: warm, plant-filled, and full of people making things.
The postcard
My piece is a lobster, painted in layers of cerulean and deep turquoise over a soft sage-green ground. I let the washes stay loose and a little unruly: the antennae sweep across the card, the claws curl into each other, and the tail is broken into bold stripes.
I didn't want a scientific illustration. I wanted the feeling of the sea, that cool, moving blue I grew up around in Mallorca, more than a perfect copy of the animal. Little dotted and striped marks around the edges add a folk rhythm, the way patterns sneak into so much of my work.
It's tiny, about the size of your hand, but it carries a lot of what I care about as a painter: nature, memory, and color doing the talking.
Seeing it on the wall
Walking into Drawing Room and finding my lobster among rows and rows of postcards was such a joy. The cards sit on long wooden ledges against a warm terracotta wall, almost like letters waiting to be picked up.
What moved me most was the company. Right next to mine: a girl nose-to-nose with her dog, a circus elephant balancing on a starry ball, a tabby curled up among cosmos and sunflowers, a cat wearing a clown nose. Every card is a whole little world, painted by someone, somewhere, and sent across the ocean.
There's something so generous about a postcard. It's small, it's personal, and it's meant to be shared. Seeing hundreds of them together felt like reading a love letter to watercolor from the whole world.
Come see it
If you're in New York, there's still time. The show is free and open to everyone.
Where: Drawing Room Williamsburg, 101 N 10th St #206, Brooklyn, NY 11249
When: through Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Hours: Tuesday 10am–6pm, Wednesday and Friday 10am–9pm, Thursday 10am–10pm (closed Mondays)
Good to know: Drawing Room is a shoes-off space, so wear your favorite socks.
Thank you to Winsor & Newton, ArtRabbit, and the Drawing Room team for bringing this together, and to everyone who painted a card and let it travel. If you go, look for the blue lobster on the middle shelf and send me a photo. I'd love to see it through your eyes.
Painting from a lifetime of memories spent in nature. — Cris